The Chronicle‘s Mike McDaniel reports on KPRC-2’s new anchors:
Wendy Corona, an anchor at ABC station WPLG in Miami, and Lauren Freeman, an anchor at independent station WJXT in Jacksonville, Fla., have been added to the roster at KPRC /Channel 2.
In April, Corona will occupy the seat vacated by Linda Lorelle, anchoring at 4 and 6 p.m. In August, she will be joined by former KHOU anchor Jerome Gray.
Freeman will team with relative newcomer Owen Conflenti as KPRC’s morning anchor team. She starts March 20.
Both Corona and Freeman have Texas backgrounds. Freeman grew up in Childress, attended Baylor and worked on television stations in Waco. Corona, a Southern California native and USC grad, once worked on El Paso TV.
KPRC, WPLG and WJXT are all Post-Newsweek stations. KPRC general manager Larry Blackerby also came here from WJXT.
Corona’s bio is still posted on the WPLG site, and Freeman’s bio is still posted on the WJXT site. Maybe they’re posted on the KPRC-2 site by now, but it’s hard to find anything on the jumbled site.
Corona and Freeman are joining the perennial third-place news team at KPRC. McDaniel reports that KTRK-13 news won February sweeps for morning, midday, 4pm, and 10pm news, while KHOU-11 news won the 5pm and 6pm slots.
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